Now you're ready to download the source code, for example by using bazaar. This has been explained elsewhere on this wiki. Please be patient, because bazaar will download around 250 MB. After downloading the source code, change to that directory and run

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./autogen.sh

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./configure

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make -j4 # Assuming you have a quadcore. -j4 tells make to use 4 cores

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make install # inkscape need to be installed at least once, to put all icons

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# in the correct shared directories. After that you can simply

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# run inkscape from the start menu or execute if directly

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# in the source directory (src/inkscape)

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Have fun!

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== OpenSUSE 10.2 ==

== OpenSUSE 10.2 ==

Revision as of 07:22, 26 August 2010

OpenSUSE 11.2

It's easiest to use zypper from the command line to install the required packages. So log in as root and execute this:

Now you're ready to download the source code, for example by using bazaar. This has been explained elsewhere on this wiki. Please be patient, because bazaar will download around 250 MB. After downloading the source code, change to that directory and run

./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j4 # Assuming you have a quadcore. -j4 tells make to use 4 cores
make install # inkscape need to be installed at least once, to put all icons
# in the correct shared directories. After that you can simply
# run inkscape from the start menu or execute if directly
# in the source directory (src/inkscape)

Have fun!

OpenSUSE 10.2

You need to install these packages to pass the compilation of SVN trunk:

gtkmm-devel

glibmm-devel

cairomm-devel

libsigc-2.0-devel

popt-devel

gc-6.6 (Boehm's collector)

intltool

+ their dependencies

AND automake-1.8.5 or any other then 1.9.6 that is installed by default.

and any other optionally required packages

If you compile automake-1.8.5 by yourself then be sure that you install it to /usr prefix and not to /usr/local. If you still install to /usr/local, then instead of running "autogen.sh" on svn version, run:

ACLOCAL_FLAGS="$ACLOCAL_FLAGS -I /usr/share/aclocal" ./autogen.sh

Then run ./configure; make; sudo make install as usually.

Thanks go to Dobey who helped a lot to figure out what was the problem.

Suse 9.0

One of the challenges with Suse 9.0 is the lack of a distro provided gtkmm2 and libsigc++ packages.